It was an example of what he thought of as the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.
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Chapter 14 (p. 182, known as Benford's law of controversy)Gregory Benford
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The number of one's possible fantasies is inversely proportional to the amount of one's liquid assets. For him who has everything dreams are no longer possible.
Stanislaw Lem
Bureaucracy and social harmony are inversely proportional to each other.
Leon Trotsky
Greatness of individuality is inversely proportional to the mass of the social aggregate.
Boris Sidis
A group may have more group information or less group information than its members. A group of non-social animals, temporarily assembled, contains very little group information, even though its members may possess much information as individuals. This is because very little that one member does is noticed by the others and is acted on by them in a way that goes further in the group. On the other hand, the human organism contains vastly more information, in all probability, than does any one of its cells. There is thus no necessary relation in either direction between the amount of racial or tribal or community information and the amount of information available to the individual.
Norbert Wiener
The value of a book about dealing with children is inversely proportional to the number of times it contains the word behavior.
Alfie Kohn
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